Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-07

Jesus Christ who, "though He was rich, !
yet for your sakes became poor" |
Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign grace,
omnipotent grace. Among the thousands |
of words in the language there is no more |
queenly word. 1t means free and un-
merited kindness. My text has no |
monopoly OF the word. One hundred |
and Twenty-Five times does the Bible
eulogize grace. 1t is a door swung wide
open to let into the pardon of God all
the millions who choose to enter 1t.
John Newton sang OF it when he wrote
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved wretch like me-
Philip Doddridge put it into oil hymn
ology when he wrote:
Grace, tits a charming sound.
Harmonious to the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And all the world shall hear.
One OF John BunVan's great books is
entitled "Abounding Grace" SIT is all
of grace that am saved" has been or
the lips of hundreds Of dying Christians.
The boy Sammy was right when, being
examined for admission into church mem.
bership. he was asked: "Whose work
was your salvstion?" and he answered:
"Part mine and part Gods" Then the
examiner asked: "What part did you do,
Sammy" and the answer was: az op-
posed God all l could, and He did the
rest" Oh, the height of it, the depth of
1T, the length of it, the breadth Of it, the
grace of God. Mr.. Fletcher, having
written pamphlet that pleased the King,
the King offered to compensate him, and
! Fletcher answered: "There is only one
thing that l want, aud that is more
grace" Yes, my blood-bought hearers,
! 70 1irrn hr md 4 10 h.,
Grace that saveo the publican, that saved
Lydia, that saved
| THE DYING THIEF,
that saved the TAILOR, that saved me. But
the riches of that grace will not be fully
understood until heaven breaks in upon
the soul. An old Scotchman, who had
been soldier in one of the European
wars, was sick and dying in one of our
American hospitals. His one desire was
to see Scotland and his old home, and
once again walk the heather of the High
lands, and hear the bagpipes of the Scotch
regiments. The night the old Scotch
soldier died, q young man, somewhat
reckless but kind-hearted, got q company
of musicians to come and play under the
old soldiers window, and among the in
struments there was bagpipe. The in
slant that the musicians began the dying
old man in delirium said: "What's
that, what's that? Why, it's
the regiments coming home. That's the
tune yes, that's the tune. Thank God
have got home once more!" "Bonny
Scotland and Benny Doom were the last
words he uttered as he passed up to the
| Highlands of the better country. And
there are here to-day hundreds homesicb
, for heaven, some because you have sc
[ many bereavements, some because you
r have SO many temptations, some because
: you have so many ailments, homesick
r very hemesics, for the fatherland o.
heaven, and the music you want to heal
now is the song of free grace, and the
: song you wsnt to hear when you die il
: free grace, and forever before the throne
4 of God you will sing of the "grace of oul
/ Lord Jesus Christ, who though He wa
? rich for your sakes became poor"
Yes, yes; for your sakes 1t WAS no
= on pleasure excursion that He csme, TO
r it was ell pain. 1t was not on sstronomi
e cal exploration, for He knew this w0rIC
3 as well before he slighted IS afterward
}. It was not because He was
4 COMPELLED TO COME,
t for He volunteered. 1t was not because
g it was easy, for He knew that it would b.
thorn End spike and hunger and thirs
and vociferation of angry mObs. FO
4 your sakes! Wipe away your tears. II
forgive your wrongdoing, TO comparison
O. ship your loneliness, to soothe gour s0r
= rows, to sit with you by the newmad
e grave, to bind up your wounds in tn
g ugly battle with the world and bring yo
- home at last, kjndling up the mists ths
fall on your dying vision with the sur
- light of glorious mo m. For your sake
No; l will change that. Paul will nc
70 care, and Christ will not care if l chang
~ y, it, for | must get into the blessedness {
= the text myself. and so l say; "For OF
~ sskes," For we all have our tempt:
20 tong and beresvements and conflict
20 For our sakes! We who deserve for on
~ sins to be eXpstriated into worl
~ ~ as much poorer than this cart
st than this earth was poorer ths
81 heaven. Fer our sakes! But what
~ gloriously up. When ArtsxarXes W,
- hunting, Tirebazus, who was attendir
N him, showed the king rent in MS "a
w ment. The king said: GLOW shall
~ mend it?" SPY giving it to me-" ga
a. Tirebazus. Then the king gave SHIN t.
~ robe, but commanded him never to we
10 it, as it would be inappropriate. See t
70 startling and comforting fact, while O
ho Prince throws of the habit He not on
- allows US to wear it but commands US
he wear it, and it will become US We'll, a.
n for the poverties Of our spiritual state '
' may put on the splendors of heeve-
regslement. For our sskes! o, t
personality of this religion! Not an s
straction, not an arch under which '
walk to behold elaborate masonry, not
ice castle like that which Empress Eliz
beth Of Russia, over hundred years az
constructed, winter with It's trowel
My crystal Cementing the huge blocks Il
ess had been qusrried from the frozen rive
SIS. OF the north, but fathers house with
ere wide hearth cracking
yn. HEARTY WELCOME.
of A religion of warmth, and inspiratit
SIS? and light, and cheer; something we C
ny, take into our hearts, and homes, q
Jed business, recreetions, and joys and 81
5ut rows. Not an manageable gift, l.
to the galley presented to Ptolemy, VIII
asst required 1000 men to rowland its drau!
in OF water was so CREST that it could ]
His come near the shore, but something J
vas can run up any stream of annoyan
led however shallow. Enrichment now,
to richment forever.
au- Right about face, for you are going
ars the wrong direction. While you are il
will favorable mood for it enter into life. b
hat and just now decide everything Il